Random Thoughts for August
August 28, 2006, 10:50 PM | 2 Comments
Some thoughts that ran through my head this month:
- If anyone has a spare 90 million dollars, I want one of these. I figure the extra 10 million will be enough to pay for fuel and travel expenses for a while ;)
- NFL opening day is in 10 days. I’m pretty excited about the upcoming season… hopefully the Packers can be a lot more competitive this year. Look for my week 1 prognostications to fly early during the week of September 7th.
- Speaking of the NFL… ESPN’s super slow motion is awesome for Monday Night Football (or any sport really). If the pre-season is any indication, NBC and ESPN are going to do an excellent job with Sunday and Monday Night Football this year.
- Tiger Woods is the best golfer ever. I’m sick of hearing people say that he “could be” the best golfer in the history of the sport. Even if Tiger decided today that he’d had enough of the PGA you could still make a case about him being the best. Jack Nicklaus played in a different era on shorter courses. Yes, the technology these days is way better than it was in the Golden Bear’s day, but golfers are also stronger and more athletic than ever before… well, some of them anyways. A couple of stats to back up my claim: Tiger is 3 years ahead of where Jack Nicklaus was when Nicklaus won his 50th PGA tour event. Nicklaus won his 18 majors by a combined 44 shots… Tiger has won his first 12 majors by a combined 56 shots. (Source: ESPN). Now, I never had the privilege to see Nicklaus play but there is currently no one who comes close to competing with Tiger - now, either everyone else on the tour is really bad, or Tiger’s just that good. To me, there’s no argument, I am convinced that we are watching the greatest player in the history of the sport of golf.
In some site related news, Portfolio updates are coming in the near future and probably will be launched sometime in the next couple of weeks. I’ve spent a while re-thinking my portfolio and how I wanted to go about updating it. I think I’ve come up with a pretty good solution, so I’ll be rolling it out soon. Stay tuned.
Also, for those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed, I’ve started running my feed through FeedBurner so I can keep better track of how my RSS feed is being used. You shouldn’t have noticed any difference, but if you have, or do in the future, please let me know.
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1. web - August 30, 2006, 3:41 PM
The Packers are doomed. Sorry.
That UBER-slow mo’ HD was insane .. too bad they can only point it at the line of scrimmage.
2. Jonathan Eckmier - August 30, 2006, 4:00 PM
Aha, thanks for the encouragement web! I sincerely hope that you are wrong, but after last season and the lack of action by the Packers GM in the off-season, I feel you may be somewhat correct.
I first saw the “UBER-slow mo’ HD” during ESPN’s coverage of the MLB All Star Home Run Derby back in July. It really reminds me of a video game and I couldn’t help but feel the same on Monday night when I was watching the Packers game.
I didn’t know that they only had it pointed at the line of scrimmage, but I would imagine that over time we’ll see more and more of those cameras. It’s incredible what HD does for your TV viewing experience. (Come to think of it, I wonder what the ultra slow-mo looks like on a standard definition TV).